Tims Wedding Album Design Tutorial

Great write up.
One question,
What do you tell your clients when they ask how many pics go in the album?
I always run into clients who choose too many shots. I suggest adding pages and often that works out great but sometimes it ends with more images on a page then I prefer.

zagiace wrote in post #12895142
Great write up.
One question,
What do you tell your clients when they ask how many pics go in the album?
I always run into clients who choose too many shots. I suggest adding pages and often that works out great but sometimes it ends with more images on a page then I prefer.

I tell people that on average each page has 2-3 images, but it varies between one image taking two pages to sixteen images per page.

Because I predesign customers can see how good things like nicely spaced out. Some cram images in, but that tends to be because of a budget.

I've been very happy with the design service offered by PictoBooks; for $45 I let them design it...easy and cheap! They offer a 'design-with-edits' option for slightly more but it's well worth it. All I do is upload the images for the album and they do the rest, so easy upon seeing the proof I can make whatever changes I want and they get right on it. Hmm, this is beginning to sound like a plug for Picto...maybe they'll throw me a deal next time
I rename each image so they are uploaded in the exact chronological order I want, and I can be specific about certain images taking up a whole spread or letting multiple images cover a page, at no extra cost.

First post updated with a quick version of my workflow.

Thanks Tim!

Do they do it automatically for you? or do you have to edit it in photojunction or similar software?

siddr20 wrote in post #13066820
Do they do it automatically for you? or do you have to edit it in photojunction or similar software?

There's no editing required, it's an exact duplicate, scaled down. I just tell them how many I want and they do the rest.

So what album design software is the best including templates etc.?

There are other and certainly less expensive options, but I've been very happy with FotoFusion by Lumapix. It comes with templates, but I can build my own custom designs so quickly, I don't even bother with them.

Not sure if it was posted somewhere, but I think a sample of one of your albums would help put a visual to all of that incredible information you posted.

Armans Photography wrote in post #14175379
=Arman's Photography;14175379]S​o what album design software is the best including templates etc.?

I use PhotoJunction. It's free and integrates very well with Queensberry, mostly because they made it, but it works with any album company. It's a little quirky but once you're used to it it's great. There's plenty of tutorials around.

ChadAndreo wrote in post #14178893
Not sure if it was posted somewhere, but I think a sample of one of your albums would help put a visual to all of that incredible information you posted.

Sure I'll do that some time. It's the middle of my wedding season so someone remind me if it's not done in a few weeks.

Awesome. Thanks. I look forward to it

Thanks for the info

See the bottom of the first post of the thread for a link to a sample album. This isn't as I designed it, it's after the couple made their changes, it's what I have handy. I may add another some time.

If anyone comments on specific pages please use the filename of the image to refer to it.

Hey Tim. Thanks for the write-up that I've only now got to ! Do you have any samples of your recent albums that you wouldn't mind sharing ?